Tag: 04.12.21
Scientists Map Spider Webs For Their Music
Markus Buehler’s team used laser imaging to create a 3D map of webs made by tropical tent-web spiders (Cyrtophora citricola). They identified each thread’s...
Does Esperanto Have Any Hope Of Ever Catching On As A World Language? Not...
There are two fundamental problems with Esperanto as a genuinely global lingua franca. One is that, while it was intended to be have grammar...
Video Now/Live Later — How Pacific Northwest Ballet Approached Its Commissions After COVID Shut...
"PNB opted for an all-digital 2020-21 season, honoring its commissions from Lang, Donald Byrd, Alejandro Cerrudo, Edwaard Liang and Christopher Wheeldon by filming premieres...
What TikTok Has Taught Us About Learning
A recent Harvard study showed that students actually learn more when education is built on “active learning,” which promotes working collaboratively on projects. And now,...
How NFTs Fit Into The Performance Art Tradition
"As a scholar of communication and performance studies, what interests me is how NFTs are redrawing parts of the art world in radical ways...
Filtered
As I hear my student playing the piano through Zoom, just for a moment, I think I am hearing Paderewski in 1912. The sound...
Raising the flag
As it happens, I don’t care at all for Childe Hassam’s better-known etchings — I find them fussy — but lithography brought out a...
A Year Into The Pandemic, Dancers Talk About How They’ve Adjusted Their Movement And...
"How are dancers developing performance energy? How can artistry best be communicated through the camera? What is the best angle to present technique? Dance...
A Lawsuit About AI And Intellectual Property Law Now Involves R2D2 And WALL-E
An American company is suing a Chinese company in U.S. federal court for copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property violations. The goods in question?...
The Saga Of The Jefferson Davis Chair Comes To An End (And No, It...
A shadowy art/activist collective calling itself White Lies Matter made a bit of a stir earlier this month when it stole a chair dedicated...
Nature Documentaries Are A Lot More Like Porn Than You’d Like To Think
It's not just that they're wildly popular and can be addictive. It's because nature documentaries have at least as much artifice as any studio-produced...
The Surrealists Would Have Loved TikTok
In fact, reporter Angela Watercutter compares the 15-second-video service old Surrealist game Exquisite Corpse: "The platform, thanks to its duetting and stitching functions, automates...
Fabio Luisi, Dallas Symphony Music Director, Takes A Third Orchestra
The Italian maestro, who is also chief conductor of the Danish National Symphony and is now winding up his term as music director of...
Benin Bronzes Are Not Safer Held In The West, Say Researchers
“They have been equally unsafe in the hands of British, not least because of attack in 1897, which destroyed so much royal and sacred...
Dallas Symphony Invites Out-Of-Work Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Musicians To Play Joint Concert
“Someone on our team said, ‘Wouldn’t it be fun if we could bring together musicians around the U.S. who are not working, for some...
After More Than A Year Apart, Singers Miss Collaborating
Afro-Brazilian musician Luedji Luna: "It’s been a sad year for artists and for the three of us: What we love doing most is performing...